A RUSSIANS PROTECTORATE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4207, 16 November 1900, Page 4

A RUSSIANS PROTECTORATE

ilHci'v lias a* pvo T . ei !. 11 lieu. especially ilit. l Ir.sl .ivy ol liu--.a .. toi ritorial jigjt»a»«U' , Wße:." m _- v !; ” \\ hat happened v.'il h repaid if f -■ 'u cSamarium! and lasa: v;; 1 ’ happening iu the cae ft X.auc mn :■■■ ■ . tlin punitive e;;prX; i.;n ; 'earn., the nominal o.nil pul erind ; 0r.., mn i hiw anti order ; third. ii poryl H -protection.’’ With Manchuria the h»:a< stage of tthsurption into ilio vuraciou. iiir.’.v of the Boar has yei ! o come : ' ; ;u speedily do convenient “I roubles” and disputes follow upon each other vehen Hussiia is engaged iu gobbling; -P atic territory that H wih m.-t i e lone, .)• - laved. From the very e easel ol lU. Chinese embroghn, the d r’ : re e Poncv has palpably been to secure an extension southwards of the sphere of inhumum tvliieh has ’fasten! iSibona lor is ixv- . To secure liev ends in Xiuue.i-n.t L ees-a . tvus a pathetic, or at leaf K'tnarpjc. in the shave she took in the rebel oilin’ Pekin Legations and the ruppres-ion ' the Boxer fanaticism in ihe nn. f ropohlan provinee. She jio’.v invites t ajiu. to resume eivd go vo nim e;. 1 in a; 1 . hn - cia ; but there is the :dl-impariaet pievise that Ihe names of 1 1 1 *’ pro pored officials shall he subject in the < .u'.v approval. Of yet move derided u.gnXicanoe is Ihe lael that Ur‘ s i;; prepur;'-. to maintain a sorec of •Ul.t.r.iO t resins in 1 lie terrilory, “to proioc-l railway.. and other interests.’ ‘'Other interests’ m a. delightfully vague exper, ion. cap.dde uf very varied ami extciuh’d interpre'ation, and it. is jmd jr.ssjbie that seanee <;r later then- may Vie some (idl ereee" uf opinion bet ween llussia and Japan as 'to tbo real meaning "f the phrr-e. !vr | Manchuria borders on ('urea, and tlm Ido roan Government is no! alien.ly die'e. I Nothing is more probable, wore a lln--sian military occupation <d' Xiauehnie’ i<o be instituted, than ihal the MhOnO .troops witli which the White Ca.ai ’ 1 benevolently projjo.ses to'nnoieei’ the Ma.uchui'iaus slmuld journey a litile inr- > t-hor to the south., and occupy a country in which Japan has so many commercial and political interests. Hi sia inis neve;' i regarded her policy iu a ia Irani any other standpoint Ilian that < f inline j territorial a/ggniiidiaement. and her pm- ' posed “protection” of Manchuria mmd .lead to absorption sooner or later. No

European Power is strong enough to do more than issue a mild diplomat ie remonstrance against a police whichplaiuly spoils ■annexation; hut when Rm-sniu ambition outstrips such bounds a ; may be allotted it by Japan, iherc inav Gum arrive that conflagration in vhe Ear East (o which the Cbinose-Japaim >■’ war rod the present trouble will he hid Ih ll most trivial and common'll: 1 ; e ot hi-toi:-cal events.